Earlier than Durga Puja 2022, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee makes BIG announcement
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| Edited By: DNA Net Crew |Source: ANI |Up to this point: Aug 22, 2022, 10: 06 PM IST
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced that the authorities has determined to develop the grant for the Durga Puja organising committees in the articulate from Rs 50,000 to Rs 60,000.CM Banerjee also declared a vacation duration from September 30 to October 10.”The authorities holidays for Durga Puja will originate from September 30 to October 10. Closing year, the Durga Puja committees got monetary support of Rs 50,000. This year the committees will uncover Rs 60,000,” acknowledged Mamata Banerjee.
She extra acknowledged that the concession on electrical energy charges incurred by puja committees would be raised to 60 per cent from the present 50 per cent.
The Bengal Chief Minister acknowledged this after presiding over a coordination meeting with organisers of group Durga Puja. In 2018 the TMC authorities determined to give money to group Durga Puja golf equipment. In Bengal, the Durga Puja celebrations hold continuously change actual into a political speak as smartly.
UNESCO on December 15 inscribed “Durga Puja in Kolkata” on the “Consultant Checklist of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity”.
“Congratulations! Durga puja is now inscribed on the UNESCO Consultant Checklist of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity! 14 ICH parts from India had been inscribed on this checklist by the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage,” UNESCO had tweeted.
Meanwhile, UNESCO Director Eric Falt alongside alongside with his group shall be visiting Kolkata subsequent week for celebrations of Durga Puja after it used to be added to the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity checklist final December.
Speaking with ANI about his talk over with to Kolkata subsequent week, the UNESCO Director acknowledged, “I’ll be visiting Kolkata alongside with my colleague subsequent week alongside with my colleague from Paris… first we can hold events here in Unique Delhi with central authorities after which we can switch on to Kolkata and likewise we’re going to Rajasthan… indeed in Kolkata we would be having celebrations of Durga Puja which used to be inscribed on the UNESCO cultural heritage representative final year.”
“It’s a ways to take into accounta good occasion and I remember India has many fairs and positively it’s one in every of the largest. It’s seemingly you’ll presumably furthermore know also that India has nominated Garba to be inscribed in 2022 — the following meeting of the UNESCO will happen in November,” he added.
Furthermore, UNESCO and Royal Enfield, the oldest motorcycle stamp, hold attain together in a varied partnership to advertise and safeguard the Intangible Cultural Heritage of India, initiating establish with the Himalayas.
Speaking with ANI in Delhi, UNESCO (United Nations Tutorial, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) Director acknowledged, “All americans is conscious of UNESCO by its world heritage web sites and for 20 years now we hold got also worked all over India with the authorities of India to advertise and safeguard the intangible cultural heritage, the living heritage of the nation that goes from music to feeble traditions to arts and crafts and a lot extra and a lot extra.
“Notable in Shukla Paksha of the month Ashwin in the Hindu calendar (September-October), Durga Puja is the main annual competition in West Bengal. It’s a ways also famend in other parts of India and especially amongst the Bengali diaspora. The 10-day competition marks the worship of Goddess Durga. Months earlier than the competition, artisanal workshops in Kolkata sculpt idols of Durga and her adolescence (Lakshmi, Saraswati, Kartik and Ganesh) utilizing unfired clay from the riverbed of Ganga.
The competition marks its initiating establish on the day of Mahalaya when the ritual of ‘pran pratistha’ is done by portray the eyes on the goddess idol. Sasthi, Saptami, Ashtami…each day the competition has its possess significance and establish of rituals. The celebrations culminate on the tenth day identified as Vijaya Dashami when the idols are immersed in the river from the establish the clay used to be sourced.
The importance of Durga Puja goes past religion and is revered because the occasion of compassion, brotherhood, humanity, art and culture. The town of Kolkata turns actual into a beautiful diva with the ornament of vivid lights.
The sound of ‘dhaak’ reverberates all around the city. From unusual clothes to handsome food, there remains a merry-travel-spherical mood all over on this day and age.
